Supreme Court of India

Ghatge & Patil Concern's Employees' Union v. Ghatge & Patil (transports) Private Ltd. & Anr.

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Reported as [1968] 1 S.C.R. 300
Bench M. Hidayatullah J.
Decided 22 August 1967

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Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961-Definition of 'Motor Trans­ port Worker'-'Employed', meaning of-lnd!Utrial Disvute-Trans­ port compony giving trucks on hire to contractors-Former drlveri of trucks becoming contractors after resigning from service of com­ pany-Such contractors whetlter Motor Tral!8port Workers-Con­ tract system whether amounts to unfair laboor practice. The respondent company carried on the business of transport and removal of goods by road. It owned a fleet of trucks and employed drivers and cleaners to run them. In 1963 the company, finding diffi­ culty in observing the

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